{"id":1674639,"date":"2022-10-05T17:02:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T21:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1674639"},"modified":"2022-10-05T17:06:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T21:06:26","slug":"kourtney-kardashian-barker-stops-ivf-after-discovering-it-really-took-a-toll-on-my-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kourtney-kardashian-barker-stops-ivf-after-discovering-it-really-took-a-toll-on-my-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Kourtney Kardashian Barker Stops IVF After Discovering \u2018It Really Took A Toll On My Health\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkourtney-kardashian-barker-stops-ivf-after-discovering-it-really-took-a-toll-on-my-health%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1674639&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Plenty of celebrities use assisted reproductive technology to reproduce, whether that\u2019s due to fertility problems or a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.babygaga.com\/13-celebs-you-didnt-know-used-surrogates-to-keep-their-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decision based on vanity<\/a>, but Kourtney Kardashian Barker is no longer one of them after she discovered that the hormones required to complete in vitro fertilization negatively impacted her. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just decided it really took a toll on my health,\u201d the 43-year-old confessed on Dear Media\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/living-life-with-kourtney-kardashian-barker\/id1444559244?i=1000581510344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cNot Skinny But Not Fat\u201d<\/a> podcast on Tuesday. \u201cEven mentally, the hormones, like the medication. You have to get put to sleep every time. I know that it\u2019s helped so many people but it\u2019s just not for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barker said not only did IVF severely impact her energy levels at the time of the treatments, but she also revealed that more than 10 months after Barker and her new husband paused their IVF journey, she is still seeing the effects the extra hormones had on her body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did this really cool thing yesterday where I got a brain scan \u2026 This is neurofeedback, so there\u2019s no radiation for the scan and then they tell you certain things about your brain,\u201d Barker explained. \u201cWhen I went yesterday to get the results, it was mostly, he thought, from IVF because it affects your adrenals, your thyroid, your hormones. Like, my energy levels since starting that have been really down. And I haven\u2019t done it since probably January or February, and my energy levels are still really down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barker is not alone. Plenty of women have reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pfcla.com\/blog\/possible-side-effects-of-ivf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">negative side effects<\/a> including cramping, bloating, unexpected bleeding, pain, headaches, and mood swings during their IVF cycles. In some cases, women undergoing IVF can contract <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3205536\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome<\/a> and require hospitalization. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, some women are <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/05\/when-sperm-and-eggs-are-monetized-human-existence-becomes-transactional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">uncomfortable<\/a> with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7721055\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ethical and moral implications<\/a> of IVF practices such as creating multiple embryos that, if not implanted, are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5237322\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">discarded<\/a>, frozen, or supplied to research centers for dissection. <\/p>\n<p>Barker\u2019s sisters Kim and Khloe Kardashian have both successfully used IVF and surrogates to create their families. Barker, however, admitted that, due to her age, she felt pressured into the procedure. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like we kind of got pushed into doing IVF,\u201d Barker said. \u201cIf you look anything up online about \u2018things you can do to help get pregnant\u2019 and then it says on there \u2018if you\u2019re over 40\u2019 or it might even say something younger, it says \u2018go right away to an IVF Doctor.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the podcast, Barker admitted that she wished she and Travis had dated and been married sooner so that they could have had a head start on important life events together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do say that \u2018oh, we could have had this many more years together and been doing all these things for so long,\u2019\u201d Barker said.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, however, Barker said she is at peace with her decision to stop IVF and begin to try and conceive naturally. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are, for now, done with IVF. And we say prayers and hope that God blesses us with a baby,\u201d Barker said. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of celebrities use assisted reproductive technology to reproduce, whether that\u2019s due to fertility problems or a decision based on vanity, but Kourtney Kardashian Barker is no longer one of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":1674641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1674641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}